Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Spots “Impossible” Debris Disk Around a Black Hole
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers recently observed a bright disk around a black hole that defies…
Hubble has a Brand New Picture of the Massive Star Eta Carinae. It Could Detonate as a Supernova Any Day Now
7500 light years away is an object that (almost) needs no introduction: Eta Carinae. If you haven't heard of it…
Hubble Finds Buckyballs in Space
Scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope have found a very complex molecule out there in space. Called Buckyballs, after…
Perfect Example of a Barred Spiral Galaxy, Seen Face On. This is What Our Milky Way Might Look Like
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7773. This is a…
Phew! James Webb passes its final thermal vacuum test. Still on track for 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope recently completed vacuum chamber testing, and is good to go for its 2021 launch date!
Why do Some Hubble Images Have That Chunk Taken Out of the Corner?
Great question! The answer has to do with Hubble's history. It's easy to forget that the Hubble has been in…
16 Years of Hubble Images Come Together in this one Picture Containing 265,000 Galaxies
The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has…
This is What It’ll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide Billions of Years from Now
What happens when two galaxies collide? The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are on a collision course, and in…
Hubble Shows off the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
New images from Hubble have shown some interesting seasonal developments on Neptune and Uranus
Astronomers Process Hubble’s Deepest Image to get Even More Data, and Show that Some Galaxies are Twice as big as Previously Believed
It allowed us to spot auroras on Saturn and planets orbiting distant suns. It permitted astronomers to see galaxies in…